Dana is CECE’s Director. Her research focuses on questions related to democracy, activism, and climate politics. An interesting project Dana is working on with colleagues from across AU focuses on how to turn AI generated predictions about extreme events into accessible information for communities.

In new Washington Post reporting on the Troy, NY uproar over Flock's AI license plate cameras, NYU Press author Andrew Guthrie Ferguson reminds readers what this kind of mass surveillance actually enables: "This inescapable network of surveillance gives police a new power that they didn't have."

Join A. Kayum Ahmed for the book launch of THEORIZING FALLISM on May 16 from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM EDT at The People’s Forum. RSVP today!

I absolutely love this updated @chronicle.com feature on who a college thinks its peer institutions are. It's always good for a chuckle (and a sense of status competition). www.chronicle.com/article/who-...

Excited to be part of this ASA Soc of Culture panel on the culture of democracy and authoritarianism tomorrow and share some insights from my research on civil servants for The Loyalty Trap!

NYU Press is commissioning and inviting proposals for our new series focused on the creative culture of Downtown, NYC. With Ada Calhoun (author of St Marks is Dead) as our lead editor. @nyupress.bsky.social Read more at the link -> nyupress.org/the-downtown...

What happens when cities step up on climate while national governments stall? In this blog post, @cbrandtner.bsky.social explains why urbanists and organizational scholars need to connect their insights to better understand—and advance—climate action in cities. buff.ly/qDFio9C #ClimateAction

Now available! A revelatory oral history, I HEAR FREEDOM shows that free jazz is a uniquely Black style shaped by mobility, community, and the struggle for freedom. buff.ly/U4ebeqe

When I type "Anthropic" into an email regarding the Settlement paperwork it autocorrects to "Anthropocene"

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

We're thrilled "42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy " made @bklynlibrary.bsky.social's 250 for 250 Booklist! Brooklyn Public Library marks the nation’s 250th with a librarian-curated, all-ages selection of 250 influential books.

The new AI usage policy for @nyupress.bsky.social is available on nyupress.org in the resources section. In short, only OK (1) with transparency, (2) within a gated system, and (3) for ideation, basic editing, and to assist with citation and metadata.

It’s gonna take me a while to process all of the amazing inputs from #TED2026 (I will try for this weekend’s Newsletter). In the meantime, though, I’ll share my big takeaway from the week:

"Beginning May 7: Arturo Schomburg is seen anew through an exhibition featuring his founding collection and a newly published book, during the Center’s centennial anniversary" www.nypl.org/press/schomb...

I'm excited to visit @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social @grinnellcollege.bsky.social next week and share the backstory of #TheLoyaltyTrap and why liberal arts learning is crucial for doing meaningful and impactful work. If you are near Grinnell, please pop in!

Présentation du nouveau livre, *Le Coopérisme : Une théorie politique, économique, et sociale* qui vient de paraitre au éditions MSH : www.canal-u.tv/chaines/fmsh... | @lab-iris.bsky.social @ehess.fr @editionsmsh.bsky.social

Alexandra Natapoff, the author of "Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice," is featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as he discusses police stings and the roles of confidential informants. Watch the full clip here: buff.ly/oXhWJOo @lastweektonight.com

#TBT to 1978! From gatekeeping in NYC art galleries to the rise of mass culture in France and the evolution of country music, this #TBT revisits “The Production of Culture.” Explore the social roots of our symbolic world and dissect how art and media are actually made. www.jstor.org/stable...#TBT

Nancy Fraser's remembrance of Habermas is really great. At once respectful and critical. Fraser is really important to me for her feminist critique of the system-lifeworld dichotomy that is found in nearly all cultural pessimist technology criticism. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

After the Super Bowl ad backlash, Ring quietly ended its partnership with license plate reader company Flock Safety. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson spoke with @suzannesmalley.bsky.social about what that moment revealed, and what it didn't, about how far police surveillance already goes.

Excerpt from Your Data Will Be Used Against You Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @wired.com @nyupress.bsky.social

Timed to the start of the London Book Fair, I will give an overview of the book publishing industry this evening at NYU London.

Today at NYU London, James Moran and I will lead a student workshop on improving nonfiction writing.

Author of Racial Exhaustion @ralinajoseph.bsky.social on the need for collective accountability for community success.

This March, we're honoring the women who have made history. Save 30% on all titles in our Women's History Month collection now.

There are 21 newly updated subject collections available on nyupress.org/books/.

I am so excited to be part of this incredible group of incoming Russell Sage Foundation @russellsagefdn.bsky.social Visiting Scholars.

Today, we're launching the Obama Presidency Oral History—a comprehensive record of the Obama presidency through the voices of officials, artists, organizers and people from all walks of life. 462 Interviews, 1100 hours of audio and video, 6 years in the making. obamaoralhistory.columbia.edu

If you're local to NYC on Tues, Feb 17 find out how civility operates across culture, identity, media, and the arts featuring NYU community members Charlton McIlwain, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Catharine Stimpson, moderated by Eric Klinenberg, @ipk.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social

Jade Power-Sotomayor explains how Bad Bunny takes the Super Bowl half time stage as an entertainer and activist.

Some strong @aupresses.bsky.social member cover designs this month, including @nyupress.bsky.social

"What links these essays is the seriousness with which the authors approach civility. This is a book that assumes the reader will take the time to grapple with the complexities of the various arguments and learn something from each of them." @forbes.com

In his forthcoming book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You, George Washington University Law School professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson explores how sensor-driven technologies, social media monitoring, and artificial intelligence can be weaponized against democratic values and personal freedoms.

"The fact that Resistance 2.0 is expanding its tactics gives me hope. Americans are finding their voices and their power to push back against burgeoning autocracy." @fisherdanar.bsky.social

UNC Press is hiring a history editor. 👇

We're proud to share that "Black Panther Woman" by Mary Frances Phillips has been named a Finalist for the 2026 ASALH Book Prize! Congratulations to all for this worthy recognition! @asalh-bhm.bsky.social

Looking forward to attending #mla26 offering some great books in literature and poetry from nyupress.bsky.social and featuring our partners at fonografeditions.bsky.social. 👉 nyupress.org/search-resul...

The "Academic Publishing in a New Era" feature in the latest issue of @contexts.org magazine includes my short piece "A Service, Not a Product." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In this episode of WUNC Due South, author of WHY BLACK PEOPLE DIE SOONER Joseph L. Graves, Jr. interprets the gap in life expectancy between Black and white Americans and debunks the misconception that race can dictate disease prevalence.

Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Cornel West, Susan Buck-Morss, Seyla Benhabib, Bruno Bosteels, and more will be joining us for Hegel 13/13 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social in the new year 2026! Mark your calendars: hegel1313.law.columbia.edu

💥 Citizen Scholar made the list of book forums for next year's @asanews.bsky.social meetings. 💥 Thanks to @nvancleve.bsky.social, @davidsmeyer.bsky.social, @daniellaurison.bsky.social, and @jessicacalarco.com for agreeing to discuss! And @columbiaup.bsky.social www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...

"Just below the media and political fray, flagship research institutions are forging ahead with great determination." Why Flagships Are Winning, by Ian F. McNeely author of THE UNIVERSITY UNFETTERED: PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN AN AGE OF DISRUPTION tinyurl.com/5989zc3d @columbiaup.bsky.social

Another great @lithub.com.web.brid.gy round-up of the year's best in book cover design.

"Federal attacks on elite private universities, and a few public ones, might lead one to believe that our entire system of higher education is buckling under pressure. But just below the media and political fray, flagship research institutions are forging ahead with great determination." Ian McNeely

Where did data science come from? In his new book, ASA member Philipp Brandt @scpo-research.bsky.social examines how computer experts and hackers integrated established technologies and methodologies—and some questionable ideas—into a profession. @columbiaup.bsky.social

Two @nyupress.bsky.social books on this list

New from me: In the New Republic @newrepublic.com, I wrote that we should refuse to choose between the easy way and the hard way to boost birth rates.

Congratulations to Laura Helton, whose book, SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS: HOW BLACK COLLECTORS CREATED ARCHIVES & REMADE HISTORY, published in Black Lives in the Diaspora series, was shortlisted for the 2024 MLA First Book Prize! bit.ly/44Tk91U @lehelton.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social